BOSTON — GasBuddy, the smartphone app helping consumers avoid paying full price for fuel, today announced the addition of Steve Dooley as vice president of advertising sales, based in Detroit, where he will lead GasBuddy’s Central and West Coast advertising sales efforts.
“GasBuddy experienced massive growth this year where we doubled our ad sales team and revenue,” said Jordan Grossman, head of ad sales at GasBuddy. “Having Steve’s expertise and leadership will help us grow even faster in valuable channels and strategic markets.”
Dooley brings with him 30 years of media sales experience and has a successful history of building high-performing teams and delivering results-driven campaigns. Dooley held executive sales management roles at LiveIntent, Oracle Data Cloud and Datalogix. He also served as President of Carbon Media Group/Outdoor Hub.
Previously, Dooley was director of advertising in the Detroit offices of Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report where he helped launch Family Fun, and Fast Company Magazines. He also worked on the launch team of ESPN The Magazine.
“I see tremendous opportunity for GasBuddy with its community of passionate drivers turning to the platform to help make smart purchase decisions,” said Dooley. “The company is nicely positioned and I’m very excited to join the team and lead us to our next levels of performance.”
To learn more about advertising opportunities with GasBuddy, visit www.gasbuddy.com/ads.
About GasBuddy
GasBuddy's mission is to help consumers avoid paying full price for fuel. As the leading source for crowdsourced, real-time fuel prices at more than 150,000 gas station convenience stores in the U.S., Canada and Australia, millions of drivers use the GasBuddy app and website every day to find gas station convenience stores based on fuel prices, location and ratings/reviews. GasBuddy’s first-of-its-kind fuel savings program, Pay with GasBuddy, has saved Americans more than $10 million at the pumps since its launch in 2017. The company’s business solutions suite, GasBuddy Business Pages, provides Fuel Marketers and Retailers their best opportunity to maintain their station information, manage their brand, and promote to their target consumer audience. For more information, visit https://www.gasbuddy.com.